Seminoles cruise to 9-2 win over James Madison on Saturday
The Florida State bats were much louder than opening night. And the pitching was just about as good.
The result for the Florida State baseball team on Saturday was another comfortable win over James Madison.
The Seminoles, who had just four base hits in the opener, hit four home runs and pounded out eight extra-base hits and 10 hits overall on their way to a 9-2 win over the visiting Dukes in front of another sold-out crowd of 6,700 at Dick Howser Stadium.
Gage Harralson got the bomb party started early with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first.
Max Williams added a monster two-run blast in the third, Drew Faurot had a two-run shot in the fourth and then Alex Lodise unloaded on a mammoth two-run blast in the sixth as the Seminoles cruised to the victory that wrapped up a series win in the opening series of the 2025 season.
They’ll go for the sweep on Sunday afternoon.
As impressive as the power was on Saturday for Florida State, the pitching was equally so.
Starter Joey Volini allowed just one unearned run in 4.2 innings of work. He allowed just two hits, struck out seven and walked just one in 84 pitches. Then reliever Maison Martinez pitched 1.1 innings of scoreless relief before giving way to Peyton Prescott, who pitched two perfect innings before running into trouble in the ninth.
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The hard-throwing righty (his fastball was consistently hitting 96 mph on the radar gun) allowed two singles — on a groundball off the glove of Faurot and then a bloop that fell in short right field — and a walk before being replaced by Chris Knier.
The righty walked the first batter he faced to force in a run before inducing a groundball double play to end the game.
In 18 innings of work to start the season, the Florida State pitching staff has now allowed just seven hits and one earned run while striking out 29 and walking four.
At the plate on Saturday, Lodise had the best day with three hits, including his first homer of the season. It was a nice bounce-back effort from the veteran shortstop after a four-strikeout game in the opener. Freshman catcher Hunter Carns had a double off the center-field wall and also walked twice in his college debut.
Faurot also had a run-scoring double to go along with his two-run homer and Cal Fisher had his first hit of the season as well, a ringing double over the centerfielder’s head.
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